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The Idea of Ideas
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When encountering new information, first ask: is it empirical, rational, or irrational? Then think about how much you believe it.
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“Reality is self-creating by definition… our impressions of it are what we use to build knowledge.”
Michael Alan Prestwood
2024
Empiricism
Life becomes calmer when you stop demanding perfect certainty. Your impressions are imperfect, but they are enough to help you learn and grow.
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Is the Split in the Idea of Ideas the Same as Kant’s?
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Kant showed that human experience filters reality; the Idea of Ideas extends that insight by classifying our explanations into empirical, rational, and irrational.
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A state is the current configuration of a concrete object or abstract entity’s properties, actions, and relations.
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